Here is some of what we have been up to....
What else? Well...Clara is still swimming four days a week. Though I don't expect that to last too too much longer. The weather is cooling off. And though they heat the pool, my girly with about zero body fat just can't really take the chill of the water. She is signed up to swim through the end of November. She is wishing she weren't. I kind of am too. But maybe we can get another week or two out of all this? She is really interested in archery right now. Her PE class teaches it. That and clown college! How totally cool is that?! I would have LOVED PE back in the day if they had coursework like that! We just did the basic run till you drop, play sports you hate, try to climb the scary as hell fat rope attached to the ceiling in the gym, square dance with boys you'd rather die than have to touch. The usual old school stuff. Sigh. It's a whole different world today! Anyway...she now wants to join archery club at school. AND take a tumbling class at the gym so she can work on her handsprings and other assorted stunts. AND do Odyssey of the Mind. But she's willing to quit swim. Who knows how life will play out with my little busy bee!!!
Ben's school year is trucking right along. He's getting good grades and seems to be showing an interest in LaCrosse. I have no idea how all of that will work out...but it's something we are currently exploring. I have no idea what the game is about. What kind of equipment one needs to play the game. Nothing. I only know it's played on a field. Outside. In the winter here in Tucson after the football team is done with the field for football season! His birthday is just over a month away. He's gunning for a camera. He's been quite interested in photography. SPECIFICALLY, photography of fast, expensive cars!!! There is an event here once a month in Tucson called Cars and Coffee. The owners of flashy, expensive vehicles all meet up in the parking lot at the outdoor mall here and ogle each other's rides. Ben LOVES to go. LOVES to see all those cars all in one place and LOVES to photograph them! He has an instagram account devoted solely to cars he sees around town and photographs and posts. He is even considering NOT going on fall break with us when we go to the beach here soon because it falls on a Cars and Coffee Saturday. Sigh. That boy is just too much!
And THEN...last but not least, is my big boy. Max is doing great! Here's what we have been up to with him.....
I'm trying to think if there is anything else that I have missed. Anything earth shattering, new, original, or awesome. And I'm coming up blank! So I guess I have covered the bases. For now! Anyway. That's all the news from the desert for this day. I'm sure something else will come to me. In the meantime...life is GOOD in the desert. Terribly, impossibly busy. With time moving faster than I ever thought possible. But good, good, good all the same!
